IMO permanently blocking anonymous access to Gerrit is far from ideal, it hurts the level of transparency of the project.
But this is a common problem for public Git forges, and many have seemed to mitigate the most of it by deploying a Proof of Work proxy like Anubis. Perhaps this can be tried here too? Best, Igor On Thu, Oct 29, 2026, at 08:40, Jukka Jokiniva via Development wrote: > Dear Qt Developer Community, > > Over the past several days, codereview.qt-project.org has been heavily > targeted by crawler bots, causing periods of degraded performance and, at > times, making the service unusable. > > We have explored various mitigation measures, including blocking > load-intensive endpoints, IP-based blocking, and other countermeasures. > Unfortunately, these approaches have proven insufficient or too cumbersome to > effectively address the problem. > > As a last resort, I have decided to disable anonymous access to the site. > > I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. However, given the impact > on the availability and usability of the service, this was the only effective > solution available to us at this time. > > I would like to start a discussion on whether this should become a permanent > change. > > Regards, > > Jukka Jokiniva, Gerrit Administrator > > > Confidential > > -- > Development mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development >
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